Installed newest adobe flash, but it's not recognized as such. Help!

[Guest]

Hello,

Yesterday a website I visit required me to update Adobe Flash to the latest version.

So I did.

I re-open the website and I am asked again to update the flash player to the most recent version!

So I uninstalled the flash player completely, removed all trace of it, rebooted the pc, went back to the adobe site to get a fresh installer,

installed it and ... nope. I still get asked to install the latest version of the flash player!

So now I don't know how to solve this anymore.

I have Windows Vista SP2, Firefox 49.0.1 and the flash player is 23.0.0.185.

Can anyone please help? I can't access any page that needs the flashplayer at the moment.

Thank you.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Found it!

When the flashplayer is outdated Firefox disables the plugin (called Shockwave Flash plugin to add to the confusion ...).

After updating the flash player you have to go to add-ons > plugins and manually set the plugin Shockwave Flash to 'activate'!